Optimizing Variability of Approaches to Regulatory Financing of Higher Education Services

The article analyzes the dynamics of admission quotas in Russian higher educational institutions as a basis of modern budget financing; the dynamics of departmental expenditures on the financial support of federal powers; and dynamics of the volume of educational services provided on a paid basis. The analysis showed that the volumes of budget financing were decreasing, the volumes of paid education were growing, and the financial support of federal authorities had differently directed trends depending on the priorities of the state budget policy in the area of higher education. The evaluation of the dynamics of final basic cost standards for higher education programs in three groups showed a steady growth depending on a group and its area (economics, medicine, nuclear physics, etc.). The authors made a hypothesis about the impact of the basic cost standard included in the final standard on the final basic standard of the share. The hypothesis was confirmed in the offered formula for calculating the final basic standard as a weighted average. The evaluation of the dynamics related to the final basic cost standards, taking into account the share of basic cost standards, showed the inadequacy of changes in the final basic standard depending on a group: reduction or minor change, which contradicted the initial results of the study on the growth of final basic standards depending on a group.